With the help of Alexandre and others I have gotten one system almost working, except for dhcp. The system runs firestarter which provides the firewall on eth1 and dhcp on eth0 for my home network. I have the following kernel errors: Jul 7 19:10:37 rhonda dhcpd: Can't remove old lease database backup /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases~: Permission denied .... Jul 7 19:10:37 rhonda dhcpd: Jul 7 19:10:37 rhonda dhcpd: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:e0:4c:20:eb:c3/192.168.0/24 Jul 7 19:10:37 rhonda dhcpd: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:e0:4c:20:eb:c3/192.168.0/24 Jul 7 19:10:37 rhonda dhcpd: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net Jul 7 19:10:37 rhonda dhcpd: dhcpd startup succeeded Jul 7 19:10:43 rhonda dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:01:29:f9:02:86 via eth0 Jul 7 19:10:43 rhonda kernel: Unknown InputIN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:XX:XX:XX:f9:02:86:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=16 ID=0 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=308 Jul 7 19:10:44 rhonda dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.200 to 00:01:29:f9:02:86 (DavesA64.daveshome) via eth0 Jul 7 19:10:44 rhonda kernel: Unknown InputIN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:XX:XX:XX:f9:02:86:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=16 ID=0 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=308 Jul 7 19:11:21 rhonda last message repeated 4 times Jul 7 19:11:53 rhonda last message repeated 2 times The dhcp.leases~ has the following properties: -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:dhcpc_state_t /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases~ eth0 seems to be running and configured fine but the kernel is not recognizing the Input from it? ifconfig of eth0 is: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:20:EB:C3 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fe20:ebc3/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:27751 (27.1 KiB) TX bytes:1566 (1.5 KiB) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd000 eth1 receives it's dhcp fine and I can access the Internet, e-mail, etc but I can't use this PC as my firewall yet as it the dhcp is somehow blocked. PC's connected to it recognize that there is a network but no actual communication occurs. I tried Googling with no success and haven't seen any similar messages on the list. Any ideas on how I can get this working?